Faith Okamoto

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• The joy of tidying code

  a fulfilling side project

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on November 1, 2025

  I recently got a massive side project (that I’d previously hinted about) merged in to the master branch. A good time to reflect on why I even bothered. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • motivation
  • refactoring

• Revamping documentation

  or, a to-do list

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on October 25, 2025

  My lab is hoping to rework a toolkit’s documentation to follow Diátaxis principles. Or, more honestly, to follow any principles other than just being whatever was easiest to write. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • documentation
  • refactoring

• Examining demo code samples

  October 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on October 12, 2025

  One of my roommates is a statistics PhD so I thought I might try looking at a statistics paper. Or, honestly, just the code from a statistics paper. Actually understanding the entire paper would require way more time than I am willing to devote to a single blog post. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • examples

• Config files vs. hardcoding

  An alternative for bespoke file names

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on October 4, 2025

  I’m heading to a conference (the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium’s 2025 meeting) and, through accident or luck, I have my fingers in three things: I’m speaking for part of one talk, giving a few plots to another, and presenting my own poster. This meant that I needed to get a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • hardcoding
  • parameters
  • plots

• Things I care about too much

  a listicle

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on September 27, 2025

  Classes have started again1 and I’m remembering why I wasn’t doing these posts weekly2. So, instead of thinking of anything substantial to write about, I figured I could just do a listicle. The Internet likes listicles, right? [Read More]

  Tags:

  • style

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